They used to cross and recross in the starlight—all the gleaming figures.
Nancy did not wait, but joined Goddard before he could recross the street.
There he had remained, permitting the rest to recross the ridge, and return to the tents.
All that was required of them was that they should not recross a meridian when on their actual route of travel.
By the Bear, if the Castacs have crossed our boundaries, there are some of them shall not recross it!
There were about two thousand men thus lost in the attempt to recross the stream.
Washington's bold plan was to recross the Delaware and attack Trenton.
He hardly crosses the river to our side before we recross to the other.
She cannot, for any price or any prayers, recross that fatal stream.
She left the door noiselessly and rapidly, and turned to recross the wet road.
"ill-tempered," 1630s, probably from 16c. sense of "contrary, athwart," especially with reference to winds and sailing ships, from cross (n.). Cross-purposes "contradictory intentions" is from 1660s.
Old English cros (mid-10c.), from Old Irish cros, probably via Scandinavian, from Latin crux (accusative crucem, genitive crucis) "stake, cross" on which criminals were impaled or hanged, hence, figuratively, "torture, trouble, misery;" originally a tall, round pole; possibly of Phoenician origin. Replaced Old English rood. Also from Latin crux are Italian croce, French croix, Spanish and Portuguese cruz, Dutch kruis, German Kreuz.
c.1200, "make the sign of a cross," from cross (n.). Sense of "to go across" is from c.1400; that of "to cancel by drawing lines over" is from mid-15c. Related: Crossed; crossing.